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The opening of the new shipping route made the merchants of the whole city of London cheer.

It's a fat and huge cake.

From now on, the whole market of Muscovy was thrown into the arms of England, so that a great deal of wealth was monopolized by England, and the number of gold coins in it could not be counted.

Just when everyone was happy, rumors spread that His Majesty had granted the monopoly of the new route to the newly formed Moscow company.

Seeing this, everyone's mood began to come down, but although the Moscow company controlled the routes, the goods were still provided by them, and the saddest thing was just those shipping companies!

"It's wonderful, it's raining in time! Our company is saved! ”

London, the suburbs, William's woolen factory is a woolen factory that has been established for less than half a year, with more than 100 male and female workers, and it is only an intermediate level in the whole of London.

But that's the case, the owner of the factory has been sighing for a long time recently, worrying about the future of the entire factory.

Since Princess Mary's marriage to Spain, almost all of Spain's markets, as well as those in the Mediterranean, have opened their arms to English merchants.

It's a huge market that can't be filled by the original textile mills alone.

At this time, the merchants and nobles of the whole London and England went crazy and invested heavily in the pound sterling to build new factories.

As a result, in less than a year, more than 100 factories on the banks of the Thames sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, giving birth to nearly 500 mills, the number of textile machines reached 10,000, and the number of male and female workers exceeded 20,000, nearly one-tenth of London's population.

A large number of displaced and unemployed people came to London, and they could not meet the needs of the factories.

At this time, the serfs of Eastern Europe, the wild men of Ireland, and the blacks of Africa all became slave laborers in factories.

As a result, the establishment of a large number of factories contributed a huge tax revenue to London, and the merchants and the aristocrats who invested also made large profits, and everyone rejoiced.

However, in the later period, the blank market has been occupied by the predecessors, and newly established factories like the William Woolen Factory can only eat leftovers, barely survive, and do not talk about any profits to return to the capital.

In this regard, the factory owner Hoffmann. William was so anxious that his head hurt, and the half-dead state of the factory made the investors behind him extremely dissatisfied.

What's more, in order to build the factory, he not only pulled some nobles to invest, but also borrowed a loan of five thousand pounds from the bank, and in three months, he had to pay ten thousand pounds with interest, and how could he make up the money in the current situation.

Do you really want to mortgage the property? Hoffman hesitated, his eyes rolling.

This is his last retreat, and his only choice at the moment.

Hoffman shook his head violently, as if he could discard the thought in his head, but the thought took root and was firmly in his mind.

At this time, he remembered his lovely blonde short-haired daughter, the round-headed, and just talkative son, and the fragments of his wife and others who came out with a few foul words from time to time, and liked to reprimand him.

The corners of his mouth slowly curled, but in an instant, he changed to the original sad face again, and the colors in his eyes also spread out, gradually dying to ashes.

"Mr. William, Mr. William! It's time for lunch! At this moment, a call came from his ears.

"Thanks, I'm not hungry, Rhona, you can put it there!"

When he heard the voice, Hoffman knew that it was the voice of the factory cook, who usually served lunch to the factory workers.

"By the way, what happened at the dock today? So lively! ”

Hoffman, who had been busy working in the factory for the past few days, only knew that there would be a big bustle at Stinton Wharf, but he didn't know the specific situation, and the company's predicament took up all his thinking time.

"It seems that a route to the East has been discovered, but I don't know what it is, but I know that a new route has been discovered, and His Majesty the King personally went to welcome him, and in front of everyone, he was canonized as a knight! That's ......."

Rhona stood in front of Hoffman, her face radiant, and she introduced the specific plot to her boss with relish, and the more she talked, the more energetic she became, and her saliva flew everywhere.

And Hoffman didn't listen to the others, remembering only one word: new routes.

Hearing this, his eyes lit up with gold, and he immediately stood up, thought for a moment, and ran out.

"It's wonderful, it's raining in time! Our company is saved! ”

"God bless, thank you, thank you!"

As he ran, Hoffman's voice spread throughout the office, as well as through the factory.

The workers looked at the somewhat frantic factory director with surprise on their faces.

"The factory director is also crazy, it seems that he can't do it anymore!" "It's a pity, the factory director is quite handsome! Alas! ”……

For a time, rumors spread in William's factory, and people were panicked.

Of course, it was not only the workers who were worried, but also the merchants of the Hanseatic League.

The Hanseatic League, which was formed by the commercial and political alliance between the cities of northern Germany.

The word Hanse means "public office" or "guild hall" in German. It gradually took shape in the 13th century and flourished in the 14th century, with a maximum of 160 member cities.

To put it bluntly, it is a consortium of commercial cities led by the four major cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Cologne and Bremen.

From North Germany to the banks of the Rhine, as well as in Eastern Europe, Ireland and England, almost all of them were the spheres of influence of the Hanseatic League.

It has armaments and vaults. Most famously, in 1370, the Hanseatic coalition defeated Denmark and concluded the Treaty of Stralsund.

It declined in the 15th century and dissolved in 1669.

Among them, London in the United Kingdom, Bruges in Flanders, Bergen in Norway and Novgorod in Russia were the four major trading stations of the Hanseatic League.

Novgorod was occupied by Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, in 1478, who expelled the Hanseatic merchants, and at the London Station in England, it was now abolished by Edward, and included some Hanseatic privileges.

In fact, by this time, the Hanseatic League was already in decline, and the Netherlands, Denmark, and England were all taking advantage of the fire and began to grab the commercial share of the Hanseatic League.

By this time, the merchants of the Netherlands were in full power to replace the Hanseatic League and support the huge shipping industry.

But emaciated camels, bigger than horses, still suppressed the Dutch.

The Dutch gradually gained a reputation as coachmen on the sea.

"How can the English go so far as to bypass us and open a route to Moscow!"

In the Hanseatic merchant's new clubhouse, a Bremen merchant spoke unashamedly, with an angry look on his face.